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The old version of this manifesto (written in 2010 and revised in early 2011) is archived here . Lean Publishing is an attempt to solve the following problems, which are shared by authors and publishers: How do we make the best book? Will anybody care about the book? Knight Foundation Nonprofit News Report. The report explores how 18 organizations raise and spend money and the role that reach and engagement play in their efforts to connect with audiences and derive revenue from those connections.
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If you haven't spent time with yesterday's data, you should do that before diving into today's post. This is quite a bit shorter, though it's got far fewer images. Today I wanted to look at the publishers who are represented on the NYT YA List, as well as talk about what the list looks like now that Veronica Roth has jumped to series. I've also got a few concluding thoughts and observations I thought were worth sharing at the end.Publishers Represented on the NYT YA List I'm always curious whether there's one publisher which has more books landing on the bestseller list than others.
Part of this stems from the idea that perhaps a bigger marketing push is why those books get on the list in the first place and then continued push on titles which maintain their spots over a lengthy period of time. Because I am human and because counting up the appearance of publishers on a list, I know I made a little bit of a counting misstep. Of those: A Closer Look at The New York Times YA Bestsellers List, Part 1. *This is part one of a two-part post.
Part two will publish tomorrow. How often do we hear that YA is full of women? That this is a land where there aren't boys or men? That readers and writers are girls and the implications of what that might mean? I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Before diving into the data and making some connections among the things I saw, I thought I'd break down the NYT list a little bit. In addition to those lists, there are series lists. A Closer Look at The New York Times YA Bestsellers List, Part 1.